Re: running mpi in sbuild (petsc testing)

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2015-10-09 at 21:28 +0200, Christophe Trophime wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Christophe Trophime" <christophe.trophime@lncmi.cnrs.fr>
> > Sent: Friday, October 9, 2015 1:37:31 PM
> Hi,
> I would like to apologize for my previous remark which is not valid
> for petsc
> 
> It is valid only for slepc. To run the tests while building the
> package
> we need to have "splitted" petsc into several libs with "--with-
> single-library=0" besides
> setting OMPI_MCA_plm_rsh_agent=/bin/false. It also means to
> change postinst script in petsc.


Thanks for the clarification, Christophe.

Yeah, looks like we'll want to be updating slepc too (any volunteers?)

And petsc4py too.


I did drop links for the splitted libraries, which linked back to the
single library.  That might explain why slepc started failing 
its check.


Drew



> Best
> C
>  
> > Hi,
> > It seems that running the tests with make check requires that the
> > library is
> > splitted
> > into several smaller libs. You can achieve this by simply add :
> > --with-single-library=0
> > to the configure step.